Space / 2020-02-20
Close-up of NASA's Mars 2020 Rover's SHERLOC Instrument
Close-up of NASA's Mars 2020 Rover's SHERLOC Instrument
NASA's image library records Close-up of NASA's Mars 2020 Rover's SHERLOC Instrument.
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
The SHERLOC instrument is located at the end of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars 2020 rover. SHERLOC (short for Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) is a spectrometer that will provide fine-scale imaging and use an ultraviolet laser to determine fine-scale mineralogy and detect organic compounds on Mar